Light as a Feather (Light as a Feather, #1)

by Zoe Aarsen

Riverdale meets Final Destination in this fast-paced and deliciously creepy novel about an innocent game that turns deadly at a high school sleepover.

It was supposed to be a game…

Junior year is shaping up to be the best of McKenna Brady’s life. After a transformative summer, McKenna is welcomed into the elite group of popular girls at Weeping Willow High, led by the gorgeous Olivia Richmond. For the first time in a long time, things are looking up.

But everything changes the night of Olivia’s Sweet Sixteen sleepover. Violet, the mysterious new girl in town, suggests the girls play a game during which Violet makes up elaborate, creepily specific stories about the violent ways the friends will die. Though it unsettles McKenna, it all seems harmless at the time.

Until a week later, when Olivia dies…exactly as Violet predicted.

As Violet rises to popularity and steps into the life Olivia left unfinished, McKenna becomes convinced Olivia’s death wasn’t just a coincidence, especially when a ghost haunting her bedroom keeps leaving clues that point to Violet. With the help of her cute neighbor, Trey, McKenna pledges to get to the bottom of Violet’s secrets and true intentions before it’s too late. Because it’s only a matter of time before more lives are lost.

• ISBN10: 1534446036
• ISBN13: 9781534446038
• Publish Date: 15 November 2018 (first published 9 October 2018)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 4 October 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Imprint: Simon Pulse
• Edition: Export
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 384
• Language: English

Reviews

[layawaydragon]

Read for free on RivetedLit.com Oct 2019

Wow, where to start. Bland white nonsense. This is what the status quo adults think teens want to read. Dumbed down, seemingly inoffensive suburban tales of mediocrity in shades of beige.

>Lost 20lbs and no longer plus size? Right. And why is this being celebrated? Anyways, she doesn't have any fat girl traits that I've seen, so this is just a fatphobic excuse for her sudden popularity. Couldn't it just be she hit puberty or blossomed or whatever typical nonsense instead? Ugh. Really annoying to keep hearing about it. And I only read 75 pgs.

>Way to abandon your best friend, jerkwad. I don't like this MC, she's a bland wanna be mean girl. The only thing worse than a mean girl, is one who SUCKS as it. Can't even be interesting enough to hate.

>So very dull. "I'm kinda suspicious but not really. Oh, cute boy noticing me after I lost those evil 20 pounds." And repeat. That's it. 75 pages of THAT. The only reason I made it that far, was hey, it's free give it a proper shot and down time at work.

>Wait, this is JUNIOR YEAR? I totally thought it was freshman given the maturity of the characters and the painfully dumbed down writing/narrative.

I gave way more time than this was due as did the publisher.